| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
System innovation for sustainability ; 4 |
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System innovation for sustainability ; 4.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Energy use in houses and buildings and sustainable consumption -- An innovative approach to designing zero-energy residential buildings in Boston : enhancing and monitoring learning -- S-House: sustainable building utilising renewable resources : factor 10 building with innovative solutions -- Rolf Disch's Solarsiedlung am Schlierberg : a solar housing estate in Freiburg : from architectural vision to entrepreneurial reality -- Delivering affordable and sustainable energy : the results of innovative approaches by Woking Borough Council, UK -- Energy-saving performance contracting for federally owned public buildings : success factors from the Austrian perspective -- Building Investment Decision Support (BIDS) for green building -- Consumer feedback : a helpful tool for stimulating electricity conservation? A review of experience -- Lifestyle dynamics as a means toward the sustainability transition -- Conclusions : steps towards more sustainable energy use in housing |
| Summary |
System innovation for sustainability 4 is the third of three books of case studies covering respectively the three key consumption areas of mobility, food and agriculture, and energy use and the built environment responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies with the aim of stimulating, fostering or forcing change to SCP theory in practice. Energy consumption is obviously a key issue for sustainability, primarily because it depletes non-renewable fossil fuels, produces CO2 and other pollution. As climate change is becoming a key political issue, and as oil prices rise, society has become acutely aware of this issue. Energy is a special case because it is a key input to almost all other consumption and production processes. Housing is, with transport and food, a major consumer of energy, accounting for about one quarter of the environmental impact from the general consumption of products in the European Union, on a par with food and transport. Energy use in houses and buildings is also set to rise as populations and the buildings they need continue to increase |
| Notes |
"First published 2011 by Greenleaf Publishing Limited." |
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"A Greenleaf Publishing book"--Cover image |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Energy consumption -- Case studies
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Cities and towns -- Energy consumption -- Case studies
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Architecture and energy conservation -- Case studies
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Buildings -- Energy conservation -- Case studies
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Energy policy -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Architecture and energy conservation
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Buildings -- Energy conservation
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Cities and towns -- Energy consumption
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Energy consumption
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Energy policy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lahlou, Saadi, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781907643378 |
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1907643370 |
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